Spotify

Spotify is a music service that I recently learned about, downloaded on to my computer, and I love it! Spotify is a music community of sorts that enables the user to browse and listen to an extensive shared music library with its other users. Almost every song you could imagine is available on spotify (thanks to other users) and almost every album or song can be listened to in its entirety with scrubbing so you can jump to the part of the song you want at any time.

It is a free simple software download for MAC or PC (there are mobile versions but those require a subscription service). It is an excellent service comparable to Pandora or other Internet radios- but the advantage is that you can skip an unlimited number of songs and create your own play lists to share with others.

It integrates with Facebook (of course) and one of my favorite features is sending a track to another spotify friend with a message. I think this could be a great resource to share with patrons so they can find new music, listen to entire CDs, and then seek out these items from us. The software would most likely have to be installed each time if the patrons want access on our computers, however.

http://www.spotify.com/us/start/?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=start